Word: misses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earrings was covered by two personal checks-one from Richard Nixon (for $560), the other from his personal secretary, Rose Mary Woods (for $90). The sale was apparently made by Winston's man in Washington, the late Don Carnavale, who was a close friend of Miss Woods. The earrings, containing 20 diamonds, were delivered to a presidential aide, Lieut. Commander Alex Larzelere, and the bill was marked "Please send to Rose Mary Woods." The earrings were subsequently appraised by Carnavale at $9,000-indicating that Winston gave Nixon a nice discount...
...before returning it to a Hughes representative in June 1973. As previously reported, the President's former lawyer, Herbert Kalmbach, told the committee that Rebozo had told him that he gave part of the $100,000 to the President's brothers, Edward and F. Donald Nixon, to Miss Woods, and to "unnamed others...
...lovely little exhibit of American watercolors tucked away in one of its back galleries that includes works by Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent. The Fogg doesn't really do all that much special with American art, especially non-contemporary works, all the more reason not to miss this treat. The museum's PR person, Janet Cox, says her art friends all think that the Fogg's Homers and Sargents are as good as the ones hanging in the MFA, and Janet wouldn't try to fool you. The exhibit has to come down soon because the watercolors...
...that the local production of the Brecht-Weill play drew unanimous praise. That's probably true, but it is also probably true that our correspondents' mother wears army boots. In any case, the show at the Loeb is undeniably excellent and it would be a shame to miss it before it closes tomorrow night. This evening's performance is at 8, Saturday's is at 9. Both cost...
Many conservatives-or traditionalists, as some prefer to be called-are also alarmed at what they see as the casual abandonment of a culture that once seemed both rich and reassuring. They miss not only the Latin Mass and many familiar old hymns but many other pious practices that have been widely discarded since Vatican II: novenas, benediction, meatless Fridays, priests wearing cassocks and birettas, nuns wearing wimples. The old rituals and disciplines were visible symbols that Catholics were different from (and perhaps better than) other people. Many who resent the passing of traditional Catholic ways seem to feel that...